After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History)

After Colonialism offers a fresh look at the history of colonialism and the changes in knowledge, disciplines, and identities produced by the imperial experience. Ranging across disciplines--from history to anthropology to literary studies--and across regions--from India to Palestine to Latin America to Europe--the essays in this volume reexamine colonialism and its aftermath. Leading literary scholars, historians, and anthropologists engage with recent theories and perspectives in their specific studies, showing the centrality of colonialism in the making of the modern world and offering postcolonial reflections on the effects and experience of empire.

The contributions cross historical analysis of texts with textual examination of historical records and situate metropolitan cultural practices in engagements with non-metropolitan locations. Interdisciplinarity here means exploring and realigning disciplinary boundaries. Contributors to After Colonialism include Edward Said, Steven Feierman, Joan Dayan, Ruth Phillips, Anthony Pagden, Leonard Blussé, Gauri Viswanathan, Zachary Lockman, Jorge Klor de Alva, Irene Silverblatt, Emily Apter, and Homi Bhabha.

After Colonialism offers a fresh look at the history of colonialism and the changes in knowledge, disciplines, and identities produced by the imperial experience. Ranging across disciplines--from history to anthropology to literary studies--and across regions--from India to Palestine to Latin America to Europe--the essays in this volume reexamine colonialism and its aftermath. Leading literary scholars, historians, and anthropologists engage with recent theories and perspectives in their specific studies, showing the centrality of colonialism in the making of the modern world and offering postcolonial reflections on the effects and experience of empire.

The contributions cross historical analysis of texts with textual examination of historical records and situate metropolitan cultural practices in engagements with non-metropolitan locations. Interdisciplinarity here means exploring and realigning disciplinary boundaries. Contributors to After Colonialism include Edward Said, Steven Feierman, Joan Dayan, Ruth Phillips, Anthony Pagden, Leonard Blussé, Gauri Viswanathan, Zachary Lockman, Jorge Klor de Alva, Irene Silverblatt, Emily Apter, and Homi Bhabha.

After Colonialism offers a fresh look at the history of colonialism and the changes in knowledge, disciplines, and identities produced by the imperial experience. Ranging across disciplines--from history to anthropology to literary studies--and across regions--from India to Palestine to Latin America to Europe--the essays in this volume reexamine colonialism and its aftermath.

Preface p.vii

Introduction: After Colonialism p.3

PART ONE: COLONIALISM AND THE DISCIPLINES

Ch. 1 Secular Interpretation, the Geographical Element, and the Methodology of Imperialism p.2

Ch. 2 Africa in History: The End of Universal Narratives p.40

Ch. 3 Haiti, History, and the Gods p.66

Ch. 4 Why Not Tourist Art? Significant Silences

in Native American Museum Representations p.98

PART TWO: COLONIALISM AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCE

Ch. 5 The Effacement of Difference: Colonialism and

the Origins of Nationalism in Diderot and Herder p.129

Ch. 6 Retribution and Remorse: The Interaction between

the Administration and the Protestant Mission in Early

Colonial Formosa p.153

Ch. 7 Coping with (Civil) Death: The Christian Convert?s

Rights of Passage in Colonial India p.183

Ch. 8 Exclusion and Solidarity: Labor Zionism and

Arab Workers in Palestine, 1897?1929 p.211

Ch. 9 The Postcolonization of the (Latin) American

Experience: A Reconsideration of ?Colonialism,?Postcolonialism,? and ?Mestizaje? p.241

PART THREE: COLONIAL DISCOURSE AND ITS DISPLACEMENTS

Ch. 10 Becoming Indian in the Central Andes p.279

Ch. 11 Ethnographic Travesties: Colonial Realism, French Feminism, and the Case of Elissa Rha?s p.299

Ch. 12 In a Spirit of Calm Violence p.326

Notes on the Contibutors p.345

Index p.347